Arrest Warrant Issued For Tom DeLay

Click here for the story. This is really more a formality than anything else. In the end he'll surrender himself, post bond to get released and have an arraignment set at which he will give an OJ-style "Not Guilty!!!" loud enough for all nearby cameras to pick up. And the propaganda arm of the Republican party, Fox News, will have dozens of chances to use their newest catch-phrase "criminalization of politics." It remains to be seen how this will play out or if these charges will stick. Still, I really enjoyed typing that headline.

Not to be outdone, indictments may be pending for Karl Rove, "Scooter" Libby or other high-ups in the Bush Administration for their respective roles in the outing of Valarie Plame. I was going to write more about this case, but in a weird moment of sychronicity I just heard Bill O'Reilly on the TV in the background (what's he doing on the Today show?--besides pimping his book, I mean) and he says that people outside the Beltway don't care about this story. 'Move along people, nothing to see here--say, isn't there a pretty young white girl who's gone missing somewhere?' For Rove, Libby et al I guess there's nothing more to say until more warrants are issued.